Thank you to all who came to Trevithick Day - Saturday 26th April 2025 - and to all our sponsors and volunteers

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Trevithick Day CIC is now registered as a Community Interest company and Trevithick day is run in collaboration with Camborne Town Council.

It relies on grants, sponsorship & fund-raising to be able to provide this amazing community event every year.
If you are in a position to be able to financially support the day's festivities, we'd appreciate a donation, no matter how small, to allow us to continue honouring Richard Trevithick.

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Here are some memories from Trevithick Day 2025

An interview with our chairman Trevor Brookes

The highlight of the day the amazing steam parade - created and produced by Capturing Cornwall

Trevithick's Puffing Devil

Come along and join us for a day out in Camborne.

The Puffing Devil will be based in Basset Street.

Steam engines and steam parade . Four stages with local bands and choirs . Street entertainers . Stalls . Street food . Funfair . Exhibitions . Schools competition . Vintage vehicles . Stationary engines, now sited next to The Wesley Chapel. Morning and afternoon dances led by Camborne Town Band . Park & Ride on vintage buses .

What's happening

Join us for a day of music, entertainment, lots of steam and all the fun of the fair!

Ride on the vintage buses

Ride here in style!

Please use the Park and Ride facility - for details of this and how to get here click here HOW TO GET HERE

Join in the dances

Trevithick’s Dance (adults) 2.30 pm

Open to people aged 12 or over who live or work in Camborne.

Use our contact form if you want to join in.

Bal Maidens & Miners Dance (children) 10.15 am

The dance is taught to local schools who are encouraged to participate.

Come and see the engines

Steam up!

Steam engines from all over the country line up in Basset Road and then parade through the town at approximately 3.30pm.

It’s a magnificent sight, not to be missed.

We have fair organs and miniatures on display.

Don't forget the stationary engines now sited next to The Wesley Chapel on Chapel Street.

Street Entertainment

Entertainment for all ages

Entertainers, musicians, jugglers and theatre groups perform throughout the day. As well as our four stages for local bands and singing groups.

See the full list (subject to change) on our events page.

Don't forget to go and see the vintage cars on Union Street and tractors on Chapel Street.

All for FREE!!

Indoor Exhibitions

Lots of things indoors

Schools competition entries and art exhibition at the Masonic Hall, model exhibitions at Camborne Community Centre and The Parish Church, the Centenary Chapel flower festival, and many more events.

Follow our Facebook page for up to date information.

Holman-Climax Male Voice choir are singing in the Wesley Chapel at 12:30 and more choirs are singing on the other outdoor stages.

Stalls and Fairground

Enjoy your day out!

There’s a carnival atmosphere in Camborne on Trevithick Day as its main streets are closed to traffic for the day and steam engines, street stalls, bands and entertainers take over the town.

Rosewarne car park is transformed into a funfair and many of Camborne’s buildings are home to displays or offer refreshments.

Come along and eat and drink as well as enjoy the entertainments!

If you want a stall, fill in the stalls form on our How to take part page and send it to the email address provided.

Richard Trevithick - History worth celebrating

Trevithick Monument – Station Road, Pool

The Trevithick Monument is a Grade II Listed Building and was first listed on 4th October 2005.

The monument is believed to have been erected in the 1930’s by either the original Illogan Parish Council or Camborne & Redruth Urban District Council and was erected in appreciation of the great inventor and his gifts to the world.

The monument is situated on the site where the previous house stood in which Richard Trevithick was born on 13th April 1771.

Trevithick Monument in Station Road, Pool

The Story of Richard Trevithick

Trevithick's 250th Birthday

To mark Richard Trevithick’s 250th Birthday we commissioned this animation all about Richard’s life and inventions, aimed at our younger audience.

Did you know he took steam engine parts over the Andes by donkey to help set up mines in Peru , went pearl fishing in Costa Rica and was chased by alligators in Ecuador?